Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Song Birds - Amur Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone incei) - Soviet Union 1981
If we talk about what the Soviet Union could really be proud of, it was the size and variety of animals and plants on its territory.
Numerous series of postage stamps made it possible to see animals that you would never have seen in the wild, due to the large distances between biotopes.
On the second, postage stamp from the Song Birds series, issued in the USSR in 1981, we see the beautiful bird Amur Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone incei.
Having lived all my life on the territory of the former USSR, I have never seen this bird, which lives in the regions bordering China and Mongolia, too far from the once western borders of the USSR.
Let's take a look at this postage stamp.
Information about this postage stamp:
Country: Soviet Union, USSR.
Subject: #Birds, #Fauna, #Animals, #USSR.
Series: Song Birds.
Name: Amur Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone incei).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 10 kopecks of the USSR.
Michel's Tanzania catalog code: 5104.
Episode release date: August 20, 1981.
Perforation: comb 12½ x 12.
Postage stamp size: 30 x 42 mm.
Printing technology: Photogravure.
Circulation: 6,900,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.18 - $ 0.28.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.06 - $ 0.14.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
Canceled postage stamp
Below, you will see previous postage stamps from this series and links to their descriptions:
Country: Soviet Union, USSR.
Subject: #Birds, #Fauna, #Animals, #USSR.
Series: Song Birds.
Name: White-browed Tit-warbler (Leptopoecile sophiae).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 6 kopecks of the USSR.
Michel's Tanzania catalog code: 5103.
Episode release date: August 20, 1981.
Perforation: comb 12¼ x 12.
Postage stamp size: 42 x 30 mm.
Printing technology: Photogravure.
Circulation: 8,400,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.15 - $ 0.22.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.04 - $ 0.11.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
Canceled postage stamp
To be continued!
You can see the development of the story of my postage stamp collection on my Leofinance blog.
Author @barski
Ukraine
For my publications, I do not use stock photographs, it is fundamentally important for me to use photographs that I have made with my own hands for publication and I can name them - authorial work.